Or better put, fuck no.

Oh right, you can't. Why is that again?

I used to work on telco enterprise systems. Netcracker is a major vendor in that world, and for the longest time one of their main programming shops was in Moscow (even though Netcracker was ostensibly located in Boston). I know that was 10 or 15 years ago and maybe they don't use that shop now, but those systems are huge and go in with the umbrella principle. (They're like an umbrella being shoved in your ass, and when they go live the umbrella opens and you're not getting it out for very long fucking time.) People who should have known then what we know now, is that at no time since Putin was around in Moscow (like the year 2000) has Russia been friendly and not trying to subvert and spy on other countries; especially America. I can tell you I hated the fact that so much Russian code was going into the digital provisioning areas of major telcos. But I was just a cog in the wheel. It doesn't surprise me that this stuff is coming to a head. I am sure there are many other vendors where source was created in places like China etc. that are part of this whole issue. It's just sad that it took so long. And I wouldn't be surprised if corporate spin doctors keep holding off a fix (if it even can be fixed at this point).

You're right, thorium reactors have exactly the same design and safety issues as a uranium fueled reactor. Oh wait, they don't. They have completely different designs and way less safety issues (relative to uranium reactors almost none). You are an obtuse asshat only intent on misconstruing a comment in order that you can feel that you look superior in some way. You don't. You still look like an asshat.

I'm happy China has started up the first commercial Thorium reactor in the world. Though small, it is a good proof of concept that can be expanded on if ultimately successful. It's default behaviour will shut itself down on almost any catastrophic failure. And the waste is not as reactive and the half lives are much less. I'd rather do away with Uranium and Plutonium reactors altogether. If that happens, I suppose this could be good for a transition phase.

Crypto is basically software. All software eventually get compromised. When that happens it will become worthless overnight. Even if it is just one of the varieties. It will show people it is vulnerable.

I used to use NEdit when I used to program on HPUX systems in the early naughties. I quite liked it.

Fuck MS and their invasive bloatware.

Sigh

You are going to be mining wishmium.

Never mind to material to build out electrical grids that don't properly exist for 90% of the world's population. Never mind the decades to build it.

Only 10% of the world's population live in areas with infrastructure that can support EVs. The rest live in areas that have daily or weekly blackouts. It's not about the efficiency of storing the energy, it's about getting it to the cars to store. Most of the world will take decades to build out a grid that can support EVs for their countries. H2 can be trucked around and distributed the same way those countries currently distribute petrol. The H2 generating facilities can be built at central power stations without the need for building out a new grid just about everywhere. EV proponents who hold up H2 adoption will kill the planet. And yes, green and white H2 will be there.

And that even if AI worked and was useful, probably especially if AI worked and was useful. It's not fucking needed. It's like buying something you will never need because it's on sale. Just fucking stop already.

Water and sanitation are required. With populations like in NC, that means at scale. And that requires more than a couple of solar panels big enough to power a couple of lights and charge your phone. You need to get out of your one man is an island mentality. Their are whole communities, towns, and cities that need more than the third world solution you keep yammering on about. But maybe where you come from, poor sanitation and the diseases it causes are normal so you don't know any better.

And what was the population density in your freezing climate place? Did you have whole towns and tens of thousands requiring proper sanitation in warm, even hot hot weather where microbes readily breed? Or was it just you or maybe a few dozen people with maybe 5 or 10 people per square kilometer who could shit in a hole in the ground and then it froze? Tell us something with parity and you will have some credibility. But right now you sound like a deluded wanker trying to cherry pick some edge case that won't work at scale.